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Thursday, January 10, 2019

The 2019 Trump federal shutdown. Any emergent health impacts?


We are mired in an absurd and increasingly dangerous time.
TrumpFakeEmergency
“I have the absolute right to do a national emergency if I want.” — 45th rate "Acting" Celebrity Apprentice @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
"DO" a "national emergency?" SMH. One either exists or it does not.

Are we seeing any significant public and individual health impacts yet? The stresses on furloughed federal workers have gotta be severe and damaging.

Stay tuned. Think "FDA. USDA, EPA, HHS, CMS, NIH, CDC," etc.at the agency level for openers.

Paul Krugman: "Does contaminated food smell like Freedom?"

UPDATE

The Guardian's Jessica Glenza:
How the government shutdown could affect your health
Key government services like food inspections, health exposure assessments and cash assistance for groceries have been frayed


Food inspections, assessing health effects of toxic chemicals and cash assistance for groceries – all are services performed by the federal government, and all are now frayed by the partial government shutdown.

The US Food and Drug Administration, responsible for inspecting more than 80,000 food facilities, has curtailed inspections. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has suspended health exposure assessments. Cash assistance to buy groceries, commonly called food stamps, are funded through February – but beyond that is a question mark.

As the partial US government shutdown appears to be heading into its fourth week over a row of border wall funding, funds for programs like these increasingly look like reservoirs in a drought, with bureaucrats shuffling money to keep taps flowing but little more than uncertainty on the horizon…
Government Shutdown Spares Medicare, Medicaid, But Has Other Impacts
The partial government shutdown is not affecting Medicare and Medicaid, but other health-related services are feeling the pinch.
ERRATUM

I just finished this book.


Compelling. 1,650 curated citations, sort of a comprehensive "meta-analysis" comprising the "theory-of-the-case" evidence on Donald Trump. Recommend also House of Trump, House of Putin and The Apprentice, just to cite two more I've studied.


This is indeed a dangerous time.
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Sunday, January 13, 2019

Speaking of a "National Emergency"

We have a fake "emergency" and a real one.
TrumpFakeEmergency
The signals are blaring: Dramatic changes to our climate are well upon us. These changes — we know thanks to a steady drumbeat of alarming official reports over the past 12 months — could cripple the U.S. economy, threaten to make vast stretches of our coastlines uninhabitable, make basic food supplies scarce and push millions of the planet’s poorest people into cities and across borders as they flee environmental perils.
All is not yet lost, we are told, but the demands of the moment are great. The resounding consensus of scientists, economists and analysts tells us that the solution lies in an unprecedented global effort to immediately and drastically drop carbon emissions levels.,,

See my prior posts on Climate Change. See also my post setting forth Trump's incoherent denials.

UPDATE

From The Atlantic:
"Are We Living Through Climate Change's Worst Case Scenario?"
STATnews update:
"Climate change is affecting health now. Our leaders must take action"
BTW, I guess we could cite a 2nd real national emergency -- #RussianAssetInTheWhiteHouse.


HEALTH CARE UPDATE: JUST FER GRINS

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